Yū had no idea someone was setting him up. He handled the wounded patients as usual. When one patient was carried before him, he examined him and found his injuries severe enough to require immediate surgery.
But just as Uchiha Yū reached out to make the incision, the man suddenly opened his eyes and began struggling in agony.
His eyes were bloodshot. Yū pressed both hands onto his shoulders and shouted to the people around him:
"Someone, quickly! Hold him down!"
Following Uchiha Yū's instructions, several assisting nurses pinned down the man's hands and feet, but his struggles only grew more violent.
Even Ibuse anesthetic could not stop his condition from worsening.
"What is going on?"
Yū's brows drew together. The man looked as though he had suffered some intense stimulation.
The excruciating pain made him howl like a beast. Blood vessels surfaced in his eyes, and before everyone's gaze, the wounded man spat out a mouthful of blood before finally becoming a corpse.
Uchiha Yū stood there in stunned silence. It was the first time he had encountered a patient struggling so fiercely, with his injuries worsening beyond control.
The medical shinobi beside him did not blame Uchiha Yū. They were medical shinobi, not gods. There would always be patients they could not save.
Under those circumstances, it would have made no difference whether they had treated him or not.
Even the patient's brother merely fell to his knees beside the corpse and swore that he would avenge him.
Only Uchiha Yū remained distracted. He felt that something was wrong, but he could not grasp the crucial detail.
During the surgeries that followed, he encountered two more identical deaths.
At the same time, some unfavorable rumors about Uchiha Yū began spreading through the hospital.
"Isn't he supposed to be